While it probably looked great on the back of a producer's cocktail napkin to put these four names together (that same napkin could likely hold Dan Fogelman's script), the execution is somewhat lacking.Īfter a brief prologue set in 1950s Brooklyn, showing us four live wires known as the Flatbush Four, director Jon Turteltaub ( National Treasure) whisks us to the dead-socket dotage of their 60s and 70s.ĭouglas's Billy is the only member of the gang on an upswing: he's getting married to a woman half his age. It's not that Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline are exactly phoning it in - although if they were, it would be with a rotary dial telephone.īut they're just not trying that hard.
#Gramps gone wild movie
Yes, the jokes in the movie are all about as bad as this one, and so is the obligatory observation that this is The Hangover for greybeards. mainly because the elderly revellers can't remember what they did.īa-da-bump-bump. No extensions will be granted.What happens in Last Vegas stays in Vegas. ” ‘Marriage penalty’ takes a bite out of working families.” ( The Washington Post)īy the way, we have a question aimed at finding out just how well-prepared - taxwise - Two-Way readers really are. “Tax Day! Now Comes the Great Refund Rip-off.” ( The Wall Street Journal)
#Gramps gone wild free
“Free Cookies! Free Massages! Here Are All the Best Tax Day Freebies.” ( Time) Now, though there no longer seems to be much news in the last-minute rush to file, some other annual stories still do seem to be getting attention on Tax Day: Only one post office will be staffed until midnight.” But 12 of those locations “will have self-service kiosks for customers needing stamps. “Thirteen post offices in the Denver metro area will be accepting returns until midnight for last minute tax filers,” says. “Now with over 80 percent of taxpayers filing electronically, most of the magic is gone.”Įven where post offices do seem to be trying to accommodate those who prefer paper and prefer to put things off until the last minute, things just aren’t that wild anymore. “We speak, of course, of the mad scene at the city’s main post office on Eighth Avenue as the clock ticked toward midnight on Tax Day. Amid the excitement, deals were made and hearts were broken. “There were lines out the door and frenzy within. “Way back when, it was one of the city’s hottest nightspots. The New York Times’ City Room blog laments that: Postal Service’s metropolitan Detroit region.” ” ‘We really stopped extending hours at our postal locations because there really isn’t a need to any more,’ said Elizabeth Najduch, a spokeswoman for the U.S. “Since so many taxpayers now file electronically, most post offices no longer stay open late on tax day.
“Local post offices used to take on a circus-like atmosphere on April 15 when many people would file their taxes up until a midnight deadline amid tax protestors and consultants on hand, often with some dressed up as Uncle Sam. “Post offices no longer stay open late on tax day,” is one of this morning’s typical headlines. And many post offices would keep staff on hand until midnight so that those returns could be postmarked before April 15 turned into April 16. Younger Two-Way readers may not know this, but before e-filing was the thing to do, many procrastinators would wait until the last possible moment to finish their federal tax returns. One of the least imaginative, but always popular, stories for an editor to assign in years past was the annual Tax Day frenzy at the local post office.
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